The legislation project in the US Senate is threatened with the hitting of data centers that support blockchain networks and artificial intelligence models with fees, if they exceed the goals of federal emissions, According to to the Bloomberg report of April 11.
Bloomberg, led by the Senate of Democrats Sheldon Whitehouse and John Fetterman, allegedly aims to take into account the environmental impact from the growing demand for energy and protection of households against higher energy bills.
Called the Pure Cloud Act, legislation fines that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has established the standard of emission efficiency for data centers and cryptographic mining devices by over 100 kW of installed power plate power.
The standard would be based on the intensity of the regional network emission, with 11% of the annual for reduction. Legislation also covers penalties for emissions exceeding the established standard, starting from $ 20 per ton of CO2E, with the penalty increases annually by inflation plus an additional USD 10.
“Different demand for energy from cryptominers and data centers exceeds the increase in electricity without coal”, ” notes Post on a minority blog on the American Senate website for environment and public works, adding that electricity consumption in data centers will include up to 12% of the total energy demand in the USA by 2028.
According to Morgan Stanley’s research, the rapid development of data centers is prohibited To generate about 2.5 billion tons of CO2 emissions around the world until the end of the decade.
For Matthew Sigel, head of the Vanecka Research, the proposed provisions are effectively aimed at using Bitcoin (BTC) miners and similar energy consumption operations in the strategy of “losing” blaming servers “. he said In the post of April 11.
In addition, the law may interfere with the US policy as President Donald Trump, who repealed the executive order in 2023 by former president Joe Biden established AI safety standards. Trump previously declared his intention to make the US “world capital” of artificial intelligence and cryptocurrency.
Ai AI, Crypto Data Centers for energy consumption, would punish a recent bill from the USA. Source: Matthew Sigel
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The bill, which has not yet passed in the Senate, appears as Bitcoin miners in this Galaxy, CoressyCientific and Terawull-C and more rotating to provide high-performance computing energy (HPC) for AI, Vaneck, Vaneck models he said.
Bitcoin miners fought in 2025 because the falling cryptocurrency prices are burdened with business models, which have already been received by the latest half of the Bitcoin Network network.
Miners “diversify in hosting of data on artificial intelligence as a way to extend revenues and change the purpose of existing infrastructure for high performance calculations,” said Coin Metrics.
Comparison of contracts related to AI miners. Source: Vaneck
According to coins, miners’ income began to stabilize in the first quarter of 2025. However, recovery can be shortened if the ongoing business models of the trade war disturbed miners, CointeleGraph informed several cryptocurrency managers.
“Aggressive Tariffs and retaliation trade policies can cause obstacles to node operators, validative and other main participants of the blockchain network,” said Nicholas Roberts-Huntley, CEO Concrete & Glow Finance.
“In moments of global uncertainty, infrastructure supporting crypto, not only the assets themselves, can become side damage.”
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